Indeed it is a large cooler, but with a case width being 8.1 inches (20.5cm) it should fit fine....although might lose the upper side fan space....small price to pay for a great low-priced cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103099 I actually did buy this, just forgot to post it
Ok so when I hook up the monitor to the gpu it keeps giving me a code 62 but when I hook up the monitor to the mobo and unplug the gpu from the psu it powers on and takes me to the bios. When I switched the primary graphics adapter to onboard instead of pci express it works just fine but when I switch it to pci express and try to hook up the monitor to the gpu I get error 62. I just made the primary graphics adapter onboard again and hooked up the gpu to the power and it took me to the bios, does this mean the gpu is not running? also i noticed that the fans on the gpu are alot quieter when I hook the power directly to it instead of letting it run off the mobo. Will keeping my primary graphics adapter onboard make it slower or does it not matter that the gpu isn't the primary graphics adapter? ps: If none of this does not make any sense please tell me and I will try and explain it better but for now thats the best I can do. Thank you in advance!
Definitely sounds like your GPU is bad, and leaving the onboard as primary pretty much disables your video card and to my understanding means it won't do jack shit for you. Also you are running a 6950 correct? That should never work without a separate power cable. The 6950 should not be able to run on the PCI-E power alone.
I think I have good news. I hooked up one cable from the psu to the gpu instead of two and hooked up the monitor to the mobo and it is running and also the gpu fans are as loud as when it just takes power from the mobo. Now my question is how do I know if it is reading the gpu? is there a setting or somewhere in the bios that tells me? Its weird that it is working with one cable because I tried it with one cable before and it didn't work but this time I hooked it up to a different slot and its working, the fans are going full speed it seems. Is it bad that it is hooked up to the mobo instead of gpu because when I hook it up to the gpu I get a screen where the right edge is. static ps: I guess I should mention I changed the primary graphics adapter to pci express and it is still working.
How many PCI-E slots do you have on the motherboard ? You want to be putting the graphics card into the upper most slot that it will fit into...which runs at x16 If you plug your monitor into your motherboard I'm pretty sure that your using on-board graphics aka the crap kind (I could be wrong) If your PC is working (regardless of where it is plugged into) go onto AMD's website and locate the latest drivers, download and install... Your Monitor want to be plugged into your graphics card, and the card needs to be at the x16 PCI-E slot (upper most) with both 6pin PCI-E connectors connected from the PSU. In theory it should work, unless you have a fault somewhere....
I do have the graphics card in the upper most slot. If I plug the monitor to the graphics card it just shows some static in the left side of the screen but when its directly to the mobo it works just fine. I think I will download and install the latest drivers and hopefully that will allow me to connect the monitor to the graphics card. For some reason if I plug in both 6pin connectors and make the primary graphics adapter pci express it shows me a black screen with some static on the left but when I put in one connector it works even with my primary graphics adapter being pci express. Last thing when I hook up both connectors the fans are quieter so I'm assuming they are not running as fast.
I'd go on a Drivers update mission.... Graphics Card + Motherboard. see what happens then.... If you have a Multi-meter it might be worth testing the PCI-E connectors on your PSU... Here's the basic principal on testing a PSU
I'm starting to think I should have just bought a computer lol already made to save all this hassle. When I hook up everything to the case except the case front fans it boots but when I hook up the front fans it just flashes and nothing happens. Is it possible the psu is not strong enough?
Your Power Supply is more than adequate, The OCZ MXSP 600w is a decent PSU, I have one too The 6950's system requirements are a 500w PSU and I believe that the Graphics Card requirements take into account the rest of the system as well. The card itself draws 200w max, from the PSU. Without connecting the front fans, does the machine boot as it should.......monitor into Graphics Card with 2 connectors, and a crisp and clear display ? Are the fans the stock ones that came with the case ?
The computer is up and running for the most part, I installed the os, and drivers but when I went to the amd site to download the driver for the gpu I used the detect and install option and it says "We are unable to find your product or os"...I'm guessing the gpu is bad and will have to replace the thing.
Just a thought.... Your Monitor.......is it VGA or DVI ? If its VGA (which it likely is, seeing as you have it connected to the mobo), have you got it connected to the Graphics Cards using a DVI-I (29pin) converter....? DVI-D is 25pin, DVI-I is 29pin - the extra 4 pins are the analogue pins.... Make and Model of your Monitor will help lots..... However I've just found that the 6950 doesn't support VGA output...so you'll need to connect your monitor via a DVI cable/adapter...(if you're not already)
